FleaPlus's Journal: Bigelow Announces $15 Million For Month in Space

Robert Bigelow has announced a price of $15 million for a four-week trip to one of the private space stations Bigelow Aerospace will deploy, with a price of $3 million for an additional four weeks. This drastically undercuts the Russian Space Agency's $25 million price for a week or two on the ISS. Bigelow also stated that interested countries and companies could lease an entire in-orbit research facility for $88 million/year.

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Talk about a perfect way for uber-rich people to keep shuffling money back and forth between each other. Is there sales tax on that? Maybe there's some way to work in a little shimmy which will divert some of the funds to a favorite political candidate in a roundabout manner and exploit a loophole in campaign finance law. It's probably a good way to hide money from income tax. What's the difference between paying Bigelow Aerospace $15 mil and paying that $15 mil directly to Robert Bigelow? The technica